Japanese Population

Steve
EAP2 A
Summary Response

In Kyodo News Service’s article, “Capitalism helped to decimate Japan’s rural youth,” the author discusses Japan countryside’s population is decreasing. Today the population of Japan is declining. Youth move to big cities from provincial cities to get a job, but most young people can’t get jobs which are high salary. Therefore most people decide to immigrate to get good jobs, and companies move to the overseas for better labor and better workers. Many Japanese women have jobs, it causes a decrease in population. If the women have a career, they have no time to take care of their kids so they will not tend to get babies. With decreasing population, it is not easy to find partner, and people pay a lot of money for taxes because fewer people care for elder people. Japan is admirable country. Japan struggles with population and job problem, but they have excellent technology.

There are problems about a job. Most people want to work in a good environment and at a high salary, so many youth move to the big city to get a good job. Some people get the good job which they want, but many people can’t get a job because there is limit of the number on companies in the city. This problem became that elder people retire earlier from their company. Most companies want superior young employees, so they employ the young instead of elderly people. Also this problem affects small companies. Nobody wants to work in small companies that can’t give a high salary or enough security in the urban areas, so those companies lose the workers and labor. People lose the work and companies lose the labor

The population of Japan is becoming “graying”. By being a concentration of population, the people have no job and the company which loses labor decides to go overseas. There are only old people in the countries because many young people move to cities and oversea to get a good job Many Japanese women have a job; they are not willing to have babies because they have no time to take care of their children. Even if they have babies, the couple usually has only one or two. Even though there are many full age people, they do not want to have babies, and there are so many young people who emigrate to the other country. Therefore, the population of Japan is getting old.

Japan has some problem about population, but their technology is excellent. Japan is developed country with excellent electronic and automobile technology. Japan is an island nation, so they make money by exportation. Agriculture industry is not developed in Japan because the land is small and most young people want to get a job in the city. Most cities are operated by industry and the technology. In the world, Japanese computer and automobile are really popular; also there are a lot of Japanese cars in the U.S. Excellent industrial technology makes Japan a strong nation.

Japan is a singular country. Even though there are problems of decreased population, so many unemployed, and high rate of elderly people, Japan has excellent technology. Actually, Japanese people work hard, so their technology could be developed by a low population. Japan is a strange country; therefore they are commendable.

References
Kyodo News Service (2007, April 3). Capitalism helped to decimate Japan’s rural youth. Retrieved 2007, April, 4 from Lexis-Nexis.